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Incommunicado in the Countryside
These past few days have been spent in a remote spot somewhere in the highlands of the Free State with friends and family. So remote that there was only a whiff of cell phone signal – and only if...
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Tuck Box – [Reindeer]
Firstly – let me explain the title of this post. Tuck Box is what my untrained, English ear hears when South Africans talk about Tak Boks. Tak, in Afrikaans means branch and a bok is a...
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Opposites Attract
When I think of cactus the obvious environmental descriptions like hot, dry, arid, scorching sun etc. pop into my head. Similarly, when I consider lichen I think of damp, cold (make that dank) and...
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Internal Fibrous Structure of the Prickly Pear
This photo was taken of the very same Prickly Pear, which has featured in the previous two posts (here & here). It has, sadly, suffered some fire damage on a few of the lower pads. Veld-fires in...
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Winter Windbreakers
A lovely long row of Poplars, acting as a windbreak in the vast open fields in the Free State. Only, now that it is winter, they have shed their leaves – except for one stubborn tree on the...
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Evergreen with the Everblue
More big blue skies, cirrus clouds and a some sandstone cliffs in the background… oh, yeah and a few trees too… Nr Memel, Free State – June, 2011
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Bushman Rock Art in the Free State, South Africa
A couple of weeks ago, my husband and I had the pleasure of staying with friends at a farmhouse near Memel, in the Free State, South Africa. For much of the time, we spent our days relaxing and...
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Not Too Rash To Trash & The Rock Art Lure
A sneaky plan perhaps… A week, or so, ago I was posting photographs of my natural surroundings from my weekend in the Free State in the posts, entitled: Incommunicado in the Countryside, Tuck Box –...
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Spikes & Rumples
A fallen Eucalyptus tree, cracked with age and desiccation. Oddly enough, I would have thought that the surface of the trunk would have been smooth, but it appears wavy and rumpled. The spiky grass...
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Shongololo – [Millipede]
Wikipedia Definition: shongololo - millipede (from Zulu and Xhosa, ukushonga, to roll up) Long since gone, this shongololo (I almost forgot the word “millipede”; I have clearly been in South...
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Glowing Embers
The reason I like this photo is not for any great photographic quality per se, but rather for the images I see in the embers. The ends of the burning logs, splitting apart in a circular fashion...
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